Improvement in picture-receptacles for saw-handles



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Picture-fieceptacles for Saw-Handles.

Patented May 12, 1874.

WILLIAM MILLSPAUGH, OF

PATENT OFFICE.

MIDDLETQVVN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN PlCTURE-REC'EPTACLES FOR SAW-HANDLES.

Specification formirg part of Letters Patent No.

150,699, dated May 12, 1874; application filed April 14, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM MILLsPAUGH, of Middletown, in the county ofOrange, in the State of New York, have made certain I111 provements inSaw-Handles, of which the fol-. lowing is a specification:

The object of this invention is to have a receptacle in the handle ofthe saw, in which is placed the picture of the manufacturer or ownerthereof; and it consists in the picturereceptacle in the handle of asaw, as will be more fully hereinafter described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents the side of a saw-handle with thepicture therein, and Fig. 2 represents a transverse section of same.

A is an ordinary handle of a saw. a a a are rivets that hold the handlefast to the sawblade. B is the picture-receptacle, made by boring out aplace in the side of the handle, in which is placed the picture I), andsecured in the handle so as to be water and air tight, -and having aglass, b, or other transparent CHAS. I. HUMPHREY.

substance before it, so that the picture can al-

